I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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The minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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